On Sundays I’m looking back on the past week. How did I perform towards my goals? How did my blog do? And how am I keeping up with my productivity habits?
A couple of days late, but here’s last Sunday’s weekly review.
Blog performance
| Average daily subscribers: | 1072 | ( 11) |
| Average daily visitors: | 187 | ( 3) |
Not a lot of changes in these numbers. In the past I often heard that getting subscribers and visitors will grow steadily over time. And I share that observation, but if you really want to grow faster you need to put in a lot of work. Sure there are some bloggers that work to grow readership, and suddenly find themselves “discovered” and get massive attention. I’m not waiting around for that to happen, I’ll just start working again to increase these numbers.
One of the things I did was buy Naomi’s book SEO School (I’ll be a ninja soon!). SEO means Search Engine Optimization, and currently I’m halfway through the book. I’m going to change some things on my blog (mostly in the background) and that should result in an increased growth in visitors from search engines (read Google).
Progress towards goals
I’ve worked my ass off in the past week to get the renovation project towards completion, and it’s really almost done. I have about 2 hours of painting to do, which will be done this week. And then it’s waiting for the carpeting to be done (August 22nd). Then I can move stuff in, and the project is done!
Sure there are the odd jobs to do to get it to 100% completion, but when the furniture is in the office is ready for use and that was the way I described the goal. And it sure feels great to be so close! Can’t wait to be done and strike it off the list!
Renovation Project
Status:
Overdue, since 02/2008.
Progress this week:
Very strong progress again. The central heating was a hell of a job, and gladly my dad helped my out. It sure is a job for two men, way too big to be done alone.
Planning next week:
Paint for two hours. Clean up the room.
Semi Marathon training
Status:
On hold, no longer on schedule. Deadline is October 12, 2008.
Progress this week:
Nothing.
Planning next week:
One 3km run. And finally buy the right shoes.
Productivity Habits – weekly review
You’ve read about my new system with Todoodlist and Zen to Done. It’s a lot of fun working with that system, but ultimately the best productivity habit is to finish stuff. And I’ve been doing that a lot lately.
